Lust for Life

Lust for Life by Irving Stone is the celebrated biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh — an immersive, passionately written account of the painter’s life from his early failures to his greatest works and his tragic death. Stone, who spent years researching van Gogh’s life and correspondence, brings to the novel the detail and psychological depth of biography combined with the freedom and vividness of fiction. The result is one of the most compelling portraits of an artist ever written: van Gogh’s obsessive need to paint, his tortured relationships, his poverty, his passion for colour and light, and the genius that was destroying him even as it expressed itself. Published by Century, Lust for Life has introduced generations of readers to van Gogh and remains the definitive fictional account of one of art history’s most tragic and transcendent careers.